Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Thanksgiving dinner’s ‘sweat equivalents’ Eat hard, play hard

Sure thing everyone wants to know how to work off
Thanksgiving dinner.Maybe cancel your
plans to watch movie night or watch football after dinner or maybe why not
cancel your plans on going shopping on Friday because more probably it will
take over a weekend to work it off.

In a proposition to center Americans on keeping an eye and
controlling their weight, public
health advocates have embraced posting calories, labeling nutritional
content and offering all manner of helpful and eye-catching logos to catch
consumers’ awareness to “better-for-you choices.” But there’s rising evidence
that no form of consumer information suggests the probable impact of a food choice
on one’s weight quite as mightily as do “sweat equivalents.”

Sweat equals leave little room for self-delusion.They don’t have need of anything to know how
many calories a day she should be taking in, or what percentage of that total
that bag of potato chips represents.They simply say: “If you eat this, this is how long you’d have to jog
(or swim, or jump rope or play basketball) to work it off.”

CoachUp, a service that connects athletes intent on stepping
up their game with private coaches, brings you the “sweat equivalents” of a
typical American Thanksgiving.

The average American takes in 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving
which means that is a lot of turkey, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce, creamed
onions, candied yams and pumpkin pie — actually, about seven Big Macs’ worth of
calories.

From of good reputation of sources on the energy-expenditure
of a variety of activities, are some of the activities you will have to engage
in to work off the average American intake on Thanksgiving:

– Run (or play basketball or football) for 7.7 hours;

– Cycle for 15 hours;

– Row (or hike) for 10.3 hours;

– Swim for 10.6 hours, (or bowl for almost twice that long —
20.6 hours)

You may be anticipating forward to spending hours on the
elliptical machine this weekend, or have plans anyway to run a marathon or
marathons.However you might try to
alter what scientists call the “energy balance equation” (calories taken in
versus calories expended in activity) a little on both sides if you want to
limit Thanksgiving’s damage: Don’t go back for thirds on Thanksgiving Day and
plan a long hike or an epic game of flag football after the meal, and run the
next day.